Pak announces 50 million bounty on Mehsud

October 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has vowed to carry out large-scale suicide attacks across Pakistan in revenge for the death of Baitullah Mehsud. According to intelligence sources, top TTP leaders held a meeting in Mir Ali recently and decided to carry out retaliatory terror strikes across the country.

August 24th, 2009 WANA - A commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Monday said his organisation will select a new chief in the next five days according to the instruction of their leader Baitullah Mehsud, a media report said. Waliur Rehman, commander of the group in South Waziristan, said: We have thousands of suicide attackers, who can destroy their (government) targets anywhere.

August 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani security forces have arrested Moulvi Omar, a senior aide to Baituallah Mehsud, the chief of the Pakistani Taliban who is believed to have been killed in a US drone attack earlier this month. Quoting official and intelligence sources, Online news agency reported that Omar, who carried a bounty of Rs.10 million, was arrested from a village in the Mohmand agency along the Afghan border Monday night as he was travelling in a car with two of his associates, including Waheed Gull and Hameed Gull.

August 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Following the death of Pak-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone strike, an interesting question has cropped up-Will Islamabad offer the promised bounty money of 50 million rupees to the CIA for killing Pakistan's enemy no. 1? The US government had also announced a 5-million-dollar bounty on Mehsud.

August 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Obama Administration said on Friday that it could not confirm that Pakistan Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who has a 5 million dollars US bounty on his head, had been killed in a missile attack two days ago. "We've seen reports that Baitullah Mehsud has been killed.

July 29th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A bombing outside a courthouse in north-western Pakistan Wednesday killed at least one person and wounded three, police said. The explosion took place in a parking lot adjacent to courtrooms in Dera Ismail Khan, located close to Pakistan's lawless tribal region near the Afghan border.

July 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud's aide Wafa Mohammad was held Wednesday in a town in the North West Frontier Province, a media report said. Wafa Mohammad and his four sons were held in Takhtbai town, Express TV reported.

July 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A suspected US drone aircraft fired three missiles at a militant hideout in Pakistan's restive tribal district of South Waziristan on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 15 people, an intelligence official said. The missiles reportedly hit the house of a Taliban sympathiser in Kokat Khel village of the district's Ladha area at around 10.45 a.m.

July 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is buying children as young as seven years old to carry out suicide bombing, the Online news agency said citing reports Thursday. The price for a child bomber is between $7,000 and $14,000, a Pakistani official requesting anonymity said.

June 28th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has offered a Rs.50 million reward for information on Baitullah Mehsud, a senior leader of the Tehrik-e-Taliban who is linked to the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Advertisements have appeared in newspapers here offering reward on information that leads to the arrest of Baitullah Mehsud and his accomplices.

June 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Cracks within the Taliban are getting wider, with the younger brother of Qari Zainuddin, Misbahuddin Mehsud, vowing to continue the fight against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud until the Taliban warlord is killed. Misbahuddin Mehsud, who was appointed the new chief of the Abdullah Group, a breakaway Taliban organization, said he would lend all support to the military operation in South Waziristan against the TTP chief to revenge Zainuddin's murder, who was apparently killed for his anti-Mehsud remarks.

June 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A militant leader who broke away with Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has accused him of killing former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a media report said Friday. Haji Turkistan Baetani, former right-hand man of Mehsud, claimed that Mehsud had planned the assassination of Bhutto.

June 9th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan has placed a bounty of 17 million rupees on heads of 10 most wanted terrorists. According to the Daily Times, the Punjab government has released a list of terrorists who were involved in the recent suicide bombings in the province.

May 31st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud has ordered his operatives to strike small hamlets in the Swat and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and to look out for new hideouts in other parts of the country. According to The Nation, Mehsud recently had telephonic discussions with unknown accomplices and told them to carry out bombings in small villages, which in turn would promote suicide attacks in other areas of the country.

May 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan has claimed that Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a military operation being carried out in the SwatValley. Announcing a whopping four million rupees bounty on Fazlullah, the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain said the Army has confirmed the deaths of several top militant commanders.